16 h. ago Pregnant Ellie Goulding says she's 'extremely proud' to receive the 'great honour' of an MBE for services to biodiversity and the climate

The singer, 39, is a global environmental ambassador for the UN and was recognised in the New Years Honours list.

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17 h. ago Pregnant Ellie Goulding says she's 'extremely proud' to receive the 'great honour' of an MBE for services to biodiversity and the climate

The singer, 39, is a global environmental ambassador for the UN and was recognised in the New Years Honours list.

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4 d. ago Withernsea: Search for missing person called off as two die trying to save girl

Tragedy struck at Withernsea, East Yorkshire, when a teenage girl was washed into the sea and people rushed into the water to help her

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4 d. ago Withernsea search for missing person called off after two die trying to save girl

The search for a third person missing in the Withernsea tragedy that has already taken two lives, has been called off after a teenage girl was 'washed away' on Friday

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4 d. ago Two dead off coast were ‘trying to save teen girl’ as one person still missing

Rescuers are battling snowy and icy conditions during their search.

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8 d. ago BBC Breakfast guest fights back tears as she receives bittersweet news in fallout from teenage son's death

Ellen Roome appeared on Tuesday's (December 30) edition of the programme, after being awarded an MBE in the New Year Honours.

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9 d. ago New Year Honours 2026: Full list of people to receive a Knighthood, MBE, OBE CBE or other title

A full list of all those being recognised in the King’s New Year Honours

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9 d. ago New Years honours 2026: Full list of people to receive a Knighthood, MBE, OBE CBE or other title

A full list of all those being recognised in the King’s New Years Honours

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9 d. ago Olympic champion Rhys McClenaghan among those from NI recognised in honours list

A host of people have been recognised, including academics and civil servants.

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9 d. ago Chuckle Brother Paul Elliott receives MBE on New Year Honours list

Paul Elliott has been recognised on the New Years Honours list

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9 d. ago Chuckle Brothers icon Paul Elliott admits 'it's brilliant' as he's awarded MBE

To an entire generation, Paul Elliott is best known as one half of the Chuckle Brothers and he joins some star names after being awarded an MBE in the New Year Honours list

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9 d. ago To MBE, to you: Honour a ‘wonderful shock’ for Chuckle Brother Paul Elliott

He has been an official ambassador for the end-of-life charity Marie Curie since October 2016.

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9 d. ago Singer, judge and kiltmaker among Scots recognised in honours list

People from the fields of politics, academia and botany have also been recognised.

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9 d. ago Mother made MBE for online safety campaign after death of teenage son

Ellen Roome’s 14-year-old son Jools Sweeney took his own life in 2022.

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9 d. ago TV house hunter Phil Spencer says MBE for charity work ‘very overwhelming’

The Location, Location, Location presenter was recognised in the New Year Honours for charitable services.

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9 d. ago Stormont Castle security guard shocked at MBE honour for doing job she loves

Elizabeth Hamilton’s security career stretches back to working as a civilian searcher in Belfast city centre.

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9 d. ago Wicked star Cynthia Erivo says MBE an honour ‘I never thought would happen’

She has been recognised for services to music and drama.

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2 w. ago Lily Allen reveals she's been 'shopping like an insane person' to celebrate the success of her new album

Lily Allen has said she has been 'shopping like an insane person' to celebrate the success of her new album, West End Girl. 

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3 w. ago Bog Queen by Anna North review – a tale that could dig deeper

This story of a teenage druid whose body is discovered in a peat bog has memorable moments – but its evocation of time and place is unconvincingAnna North’s fourth book, Bog Queen, is a stranded or braided novel. First “a colony of moss” speaks – or rather, does not speak, but “if such a colony could tell the story of its life”, here’s some of what it might say. Then we have Agnes in 2018, American, tall, awkward, expert in forensic pathology and uncertain about everything else, including much of life in England. And then, in the first person, there is an iron age teenage girl, the druid of her village, riding towards a Roman town with her brother Aesu and friend Crab: “I had been druid for two seasons at that point and everyone said I was doing very well.”Agnes has a post-doctoral fellowship in Manchester, from which she is summoned to the discovery of a body in a peat bog in Ludlow. The story shadows that of Lindow Man, found by peat harvesters in a bog near Wi...

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4 w. ago Girl, 11, left 'speechless' after becoming youngest person to be honoured with MBE

Carmela Chillery-Watson, who has a rare muscle wasting condition, raised hundreds of thousands of pounds for the charity Muscular Dystrophy UK

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